41.   A senior Israeli official met Yasser Arafat Sunday for talks on controversial plans to build a Palestinian airport and other simmering disputes between the two sides.

42.   A series of simmering commercial disputes and the future of transatlantic trade relations will dominate EU-US talks in Washington on Monday and Tuesday.

43.   The simmering industrial disputes have provoked a fierce crackdown by ministers who have proposed tough curbs on trade union power to protect essential public services.

44.   The two have fought three wars and US officials have said their simmering dispute over Kashmir could trigger a nuclear conflict.

45.   Zoellick however ruled out cutting a bilateral free trade deal with Japan, with which it has a simmering dispute over a US tariff on steel imports.

46.   Japan and the United States reached a basic agreement Saturday over the simmering dispute over liberalisation of the Japanese insurance market, Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said.

47.   Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and has been at the centre of a simmering dispute between the two countries.

48.   Matsushita, the largest Japanese consumer electrical appliance maker, is reportedly confronted by a simmering dispute with the management of MCA, a major US film producer.